Welcome to the 2019 MidSchoolMath National Conference! #MidSchoolMath2019

Looking for Session Handouts? Check out the Conference Dropbox at http://bit.ly/MidSchoolMath2019! Additional materials will be added as they are provided.

Thank you for joining us in Santa Fe for our 6th Annual Conference! If you selected your sessions prior to Sunday, 2/24, a print copy of your personalized schedule will be provided in your attendee packet. You’ll also get a daily agenda email from SCHED!

As a reminder, helpful information about traveling to Santa Fe, including airport shuttle services, featured hotels, getting around town, restaurants, and more can be found here.

After the Conference, please take a moment to provide session feedback using SCHED! Thank you!

PPretend play is an evolved, biological design that functions so organisms can construct themselves by using common, cheap, and safe features of the environment to train behaviors that are too costly to be practiced for real. How does this statement relate to math education? Student engagement increases when math is learned for an authentic application. Students cannot always do the math they are learning for a real reason. Therefore, creating an immersive simulation achieves the goal by capitalizing on the biological adaptation of pretend play.

In this session, join researcher and consultant Stephanie Owens to explore the cognitive model of pretend play and the application of the model for creating engaging and effective immersion scenarios for math students.

This session is being offered twice; please only sign up for one of the two sessions.